tin lizzie

These user-created lists contain the word ‘tin lizzie’.

• Automobiles

  ambulance, automobile, beach buggy, cab, car, cement mixer, cherry, coach, compact, convertible, coupe, deuce and 66 more...

• tom, dick and harry

  merry andrew, spotted dick, black jack, lazy susan, bloody mary, charley horse, doubting thomas, willy nilly, jolly roger, peg leg, catherine wheel, charlotte russe and 156 more...

• Words I'd Like to Use Someday

  thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...

• For Pete's Sake

  Names that appear in common phrases/clichès. (Also see sionnach's list, tom, dick and harry.)

  adam's apple, jim crow, joe blow, bobby pin, nervous nellie, for pete's sake, jolly roger, john hancock, johnny-come-lately, suzie q, teddy bear, tommy gun and 81 more...

• Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers

  A decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the 20th century. From Rosemarie Ostler's book of the same name.

  nickelodeon, ivory tickler, alley-oop, horse opera, gun opera, boffo, boston version, jitney, cakewalk, tin lizzie, automobubbling, shirtwaist and 21 more...

• inanimate objects with Christian names

  idea lifted from a talkboard thread that'll probably be gone by the time you read this. Does jack-knife count? Guy-rope oughtn't.
  
  Cliff…

  spinning jenny, lazy susan, catherine wheel, jolly roger, allen key, blue peter, rubber johnny, john, black maria, round robin, tin lizzie, jerry-can and 11 more...